Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/2


 * ... that the Kingston, New York, zoning code forbids new construction in the Stockade District to higher than 62 ft, the height of the base of the steeple of the Old Dutch Church (pictured)?
 * ... that the Tobias Van Steenburgh House was one of the few buildings in Kingston, New York, not burned by British troops in 1777?
 * ... that despite most of its interments later being moved to larger rural cemeteries, Sharp Burial Ground in Kingston, New York, still has the graves of two former U.S. Congressmen?

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